Joseph ford



- J. FURD.

FILTER.

ND. 87,250.. Patented IQUQS,A 1869.

Sanitas l time ittutfftit JOSEPH FoRnoF'NEWBURG, NEW YORK. Lqum man: No.vsigni, 1aed Femm 23, 186s.

MROVEMENT III FILTERS.

f 04th-'l'heSchedulereferredteintimenLetterslt'aceuizamxnaldngpnxtol'tlxesunn`To all whom. it may concern- Be it known that I, JOSEPH FORD, o fNewburg, in

the county of Orange, arid State of New York, have' circular. flange, Q,for thel reception of another cylinder, F.

--Tiie cylinder A B'is` divided in in centre, by apar. tition, E, in twoparts, C and D, which-communicate with the inside of cylinder F by twoopenings, O and P.

In the cyiinder F is inserted another circular plate, M lM, connectedwith a frame, .T T, and a stem, T. The plate M, with the openings V andW correspondin'g with the holes O and P, is tted easy to the inner sidesof cylinder F, with the frame T T, to which is bolted asimilar frame, K,by four screws, s s, enclosing between themselves two piecesofbrass-ivire cloth R B, between which is laid sponge or cloth L, or anyother suitable substance in required thickness, for lilterin A over, G,is screwed over the other end of cylinder F, closing the cylinderwater-tight, and a handle, H, attached to the stem T, finishes the wholeappa- 111.17118. A

Suppose this filter is attached tothe water-supply' pipe in a house, thewater may enter at A, ig.r1,and

is going through chamber C, opening 0 and 'V in the cylinder F, andafter passing throughthe filterL, where it left all the uncleansubstances, is going through opening W P, chamber D and B, into the pipe-leadingit to the place where it will be used.

After the lter is used some timeiuthis position,

and it wants cleaning, the whole process of cleaning consistsinreversing the filter, or turning the other side of the lter toward thechamber where the water enters; that is, so that the opening W, in thebottomplate M, comes over the opening 0, and the'opening V over the holeP.

The water itself', entering at A, will wash out all the uncleansubstances from the filter, by going through the filter from the otherside, and carry them ont the pipe, when the water will notbe used untilthe water runs off clean again..

The construct-ion of this filter is very simple, it can f easily betaken apart, and the cleaning itself is donel by the least possiblework, by only reversing the filter by the handle H.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The reversible llter L, in combination with the frame T K, bottom-plateM, cylinder F, cover G, handle H, and pipe A B, substantially and forthe purpose asspecified.

, ,JOSEPH FORD.' Witnesses: GEO. S. Mmmm.,

Fai-1n. J. Mamans.

